06-09-2008, 01:13 PM
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| Keeth Smart on list of attractive olympians
Can't figure out how you go directly to picture.
Anyway, Keeth is Number 36 on list of attractive olympians that is also on the page of this URL.
Caption is that Keeth is first US man to earn number 1 ranking. http://sports.aol.com/story/_a/snubb...535x1200139477
Geez, haven't they heard of our Women Sabreuses? Went through the whole list and at least a couple should have been there. About 4 beach volleyball women, what a surprise.
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06-09-2008, 01:20 PM
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| Becca might be considered too young for this kind of list. | 
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06-09-2008, 01:31 PM
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| Is it just me, or does the girl who is number 18 have a huge body, and a tiny head??
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06-09-2008, 02:12 PM
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Originally Posted by seven6ty  Is it just me, or does the girl who is number 18 have a huge body, and a tiny head?? | Just you.
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06-09-2008, 02:13 PM
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Originally Posted by KD5MDK Becca might be considered too young for this kind of list. | 18 = too young?
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06-09-2008, 02:19 PM
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| Wasn't sure if she'd had her birthday yet. Lots of people would have said 17 was creepy. | |
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06-09-2008, 03:28 PM
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| Okay, who was judging this? I feel like less than half of those people were attractive.
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06-09-2008, 03:54 PM
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| Plus it seems quite a bias towards American athletes.
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06-09-2008, 03:57 PM
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Originally Posted by W. Richmond Okay, who was judging this? I feel like less than half of those people were attractive. | Totally! I think this might be the "relatively attractive" list... in comparison to all those that didn't make it. Then again, even most of the other fencers are more attractive than some of the duds on that list. | |
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06-09-2008, 04:57 PM
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Originally Posted by W. Richmond Okay, who was judging this? I feel like less than half of those people were attractive. | I'm with you, there.
Comforting to know, though, that if I make the Olympics I could probably make a list like this 
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06-09-2008, 05:15 PM
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| Even my list of exes is attractive compared to that list. of course there are several exceptions ie, all of the ones who aren't eligible to compete in the Kentucky Derby without a midget on top of them. 
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06-09-2008, 05:50 PM
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Originally Posted by fencerbill Geez, haven't they heard of our Women Sabreuses? Went through the whole list and at least a couple should have been there. | What???  Age issues aside, I cannot think of anyone who should qualify. We must have very different tastes.
OTOH, there were a lot of duds there - Apolo Anton Ohno, and that tattooed soccer player spring immediately to mind. If a doping verdict is not disqualifying, then Marion Jones should be somewhere on the list.
Another thing is that such lists should be segregated by gender.
There was also a list of pictures of "WNBA Head Turners". Wow, what a lot of duds there. ( picture 13/17  )
Not that I in any way look good myself, but I do not claim so, nor get paid for it.
Have a nice time!
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06-09-2008, 06:16 PM
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| I don't think many of them are getting paid to look good either. A few that have been given modeling gigs. One of the things too consider is that it's unlikely that great pictures were used for any of them so one might want to look elsewhere for verification before reaching a conclusion. Another to consider is that a given athlete's mainstream success in athletics related media/mainstream media likely also plays a factor (I doubt Keeth makes the list if you take away his commercials; not many people have been proclaimed the most gorgeous athlete on the planet by Playboy; not many girls have had to worry about their Facebook pictures being leaked to the internet, etc).
The WNBA list is just plain wrong. Most glaring omission = Candace Parker (despite how much her stock has fallen due to an engagement with Shelden Williams). I'm pretty sure there's actually a legit list for the WNBA that most guys (those of us that aren't turned off by women that are taller or bigger than us provided there's reasonable HWP) would agree with.
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06-09-2008, 06:38 PM
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Originally Posted by KD5MDK Wasn't sure if she'd had her birthday yet. Lots of people would have said 17 was creepy. | Too creepy for what? | |
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06-09-2008, 06:40 PM
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Originally Posted by fencerbill Geez, haven't they heard of our Women Sabreuses? Went through the whole list and at least a couple should have been there. | The tagline says no. 1 for men so what's the problem? The reference to men kind of rules out females.... | |
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06-10-2008, 12:09 AM
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| I didn't count, but had the impression it was about half men and half women.
They picked Keeth who had been ranked first. I am very proud of the performance of our Sabre men. But wouldn't just about anyone say that our Sabre women have been more successful than our Sabre men?
And they ain't bad looking.
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06-10-2008, 12:36 AM
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| Really though soccer players are pretty much universally hot, same with swimmers (or maybe it's the glistening ) | |
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06-10-2008, 12:55 AM
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| The one with the tatoo referred to earlier was actually a women's soccer player who's probably a rising star (she didn't play for Carolina though  ). Although a fair number of women's soccer players are hot and swimmers aren't doing half bad either from the looks of things....
In the spirit of fairness lets here some alternative nominations from those that are dissatified...I'm sure Peter would like to nominate a few members of the Swedish WE squad (although I'd like qualifications above and beyond blonde-haired and blue-eyed)....
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06-10-2008, 09:39 AM
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| there are definitly more fencers that could of made it. male and female.
Becca Ward
Andrea Baldini
Peter Joppich
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06-10-2008, 09:50 AM
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Originally Posted by PeterGustafsson What??? Age issues aside, I cannot think of anyone who should qualify. We must have very different tastes. | Personally, I think Sada would be on the list.
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